Articles by Agilent Technologies Inc., Santa Clara, CA

WIN Semiconductors announced the availability of a new MMIC tool bar personality for ten Advanced Design System (ADS) process design kits (PDK) for its popular Enhancement/Depletion-Mode PHEMT and HBT process technologies. The new add-on WIN PDKs, developed for use with current and future releases of Agilent Technologies' ADS 2009,...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the availability of a Signal Peak Detection firmware-processing option for its recently introduced PCI Express® (PCIe) high-speed digitizer with on-board FPGA. The peak detection and analysis firmware allows real-time acquisition and peak-detection up to 4GS/s. Agilent’s high-speed data converter platform provides higher sampling rates, faster...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the introduction of the N9030A PXA signal analyser, the highest-performance member of the Agilent X-Series signal analysers. The PXA provides frequency coverage up to 26.5 GHz and ensures present and future flexibility through optional measurement capabilities and hardware expandability. The analyser also includes extensive code-compatibility...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the availability of an add-on process design kit (PDK) with enhanced, foundry-certified features for United Monolithic Semiconductors 's (UMS) popular PHEMT processes (PH25, PH15, PPH25 and PPH15). Providing the most complete MMIC design flow available using Agilent's Advanced Design System (ADS) platform, the new MMIC...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced Advanced Design System (ADS) 2009 Update 1, the industry’s first complete, front-to-back solution for monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) and RF module design. The release integrates 3-D electromagnetic (EM) analysis, wireless standards-based design verification libraries, X-parameter simulation, and statistical design and yield optimization. Advanced Design...

Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced the industry’s first microwave signal generator with ultra-high output power capability that breaks the one-watt output barrier. The Agilent PSG E8257D signal generator option 521 delivers from +24 to +28 dBm specified output power over a frequency range of 250 MHz to 20 GHz (useable...

Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced a new LTE baseband exploration library for the SystemVue 2009 design platform. The library (version W1912) provides full source-code access to PHY golden reference algorithms that are consistent with the 3GPP LTE March 2009 standard. Agilent’s new LTE library provides key advances for 3GPP LTE...

Agilent Technologies Inc. expanded the world’s most flexible PNA-X network analyzer with 13.5, 43.5 and 50 GHz models. The 43.5 and 50 GHz models support higher frequency applications such as radar and satellite communications, while the 13.5 GHz model is ideal for lower-frequency devices used in wireless communications. Agilent’s...

Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced a single-unit solution -- the U8903A audio analyzer -- that helps users quantify characteristics that affect sound quality in audio devices. The Agilent U8903A is also the next-generation replacement for the widely used legacy 8903B audio analyzer. The scalable, two-channel U8903A includes versatile measurement functions,...

Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced EMPro 2009, the full 3-D electromagnetic (EM) design and simulation software that represents the next step in integration with Advanced Design System (ADS), the industry’s leading RF and microwave design and simulation platform. EMPro 2009 contains both finite-element-method and finite-difference-time-domain EM simulation techniques. Integrated with...